13703 | The Cyber Hymnal#13704 | 13705 |
Text: | Fools Make A Mock At Sin |
Author: | John Berridge |
Tune: | MORNINGTON |
Composer: | Garrett Colley Wellesley |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 Fools make a mock at sin,
And with destruction sport;
But death will stop their simple grin,
And cut their laughter short.
2 Bethink, oh, thoughtless man,
What misery sin brings forth;
All sorrow, sickness, want, and pain,
From sin receive their birth.
3 On angels sin has cast
Destruction without end;
Through sin the heav’nly form they lost,
And sunk into a fiend!
4 The sin thou lovest well,
At last will make thee mourn;
It has blown up a fire in hell,
Which will for ever burn.
5 Sin bringeth ghastly woe,
Yet comes with leering face!
Regard it as thy deadly foe,
And fly its foul embrace.
6 Lord, give me godly fear,
And keep me watchful, too,
Else I may sit in scorner’s chair,
And mock as scorners do.
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First Line: | Fools make a mock at sin |
Title: | Fools Make A Mock At Sin |
Author: | John Berridge |
Meter: | SM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Sion's Songs (London: Vallance & Conder, 1785) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tunes: LAKE ENON by Isaac B. Woodbury, MONSELL by Joseph Barnby, RHODES by Charles W. Jordan |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MORNINGTON |
Composer: | Garrett Colley Wellesley (1760, arr.) |
Meter: | SM |
Key: | E Major |
Source: | David's Harp, 1805 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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